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This must be referring to the 1981 declaration of martial law by Polish General Jaruzelski, following pressure from the Solidarity trade union and others. Due
by mturmon 11y ago
This must be referring to the 1981 declaration of martial law by Polish General Jaruzelski, following pressure from the Solidarity trade union and others. Due to Cold War politics, you can see the US might want to address this by allowing Poles stay in the US.
- schoen 11y agoA similar thing happened with the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Student_Protection_Act_of_1992 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Student_Protection_Act... In this case the automatic permanent resident status was created by a specific law; it wasn't a consequence of general legal principles. The U.S. government does offer a relatively automatic asylum when people experience or fear certain kinds of persecution abroad, but the determination is supposed to be very individual and fact-intensive. There was an exception to the detailed factual inquiry for Cubans: generally any Cuban who made it to the U.S. -- evading the U.S. Coast Guard, which was trying to prevent people from taking advantage of the policy -- would be given permanent resident status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy